Visual Agnosia - Miracle Health Care And Wellness Center

Visual agnosia impairs one’s ability to process incoming visual information and understand its meaning. 👉There are two main types of visual agnosia: apperceptive and associative . People with apperceptive agnosia cannot properly process what they see and distinguish between different visual stimuli.

Even the same object shown from different angles may not appear as the same object to them. People with associative agnosia cannot match the object they see with the information stored in their memory.They can draw a picture of an object (which means they process the information from the visual stimuli correctly), but they cannot tell what it is.

A type of apperceptive agnosia is prosopagnosia where the affected person is unable to recognize faces. This often occurs in Alzheimer’s disease patients and autists.